Your lamps with gladness take! Hallelujah! With bridal care Yourselves prepare 2 Zion hears the watchmen singing, Her Star is risen, her Light is come! Now come, Thon Blessed One, Lord Jesus, God's own Son, Hail! Hosanna! The joyful call We answer all, 3 Glory unto Thee be given, By men and by the host of heaven, With harp and cymbal's clearest tone; Hath yet attained to hear Therefore will we Eternally Sing hymns of joy and praise to Thee. 550 L. M. LET thoughtless thousands choose the road That leads the soul away from God; 2 On Christ, by faith, I fain would live, From Him, my life, my all receive; To Him devote my fleeting hours, Serve Him alone with all my powers. 3 Christ is my everlasting All; 4 Soon will the Lord, my Life, appear; 5 Soon will the saints in glory meet, 551 L. M. THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away! What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? 2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead: 3 Lord, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be Thou the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away. 552 8,7,8,7,8,8,7 THE day is surely drawing near, All mirth and laughter then shall cease, 2 A trumpet loud shall then resound, Then all who in their graves are found 3 A book is opened then to all A record truly telling What each hath done, both great and When he on earth was dwelling;' 4 Then woe to those who scorned the Lord, And sought but carnal pleasures, Who here despised His precious Word, And loved their earthly treasures! With shame and trembling they will stand, And at the Judge's stern command 5 O Jesus, who my debt didst pay, And for my sin wast smitten, Within the book of life, O may My name be also written! I will not doubt; I trust in Thee, From Satan Thou hast made me free, And from all condemnation. 6 Therefore my Intercessor be, Declare my name from judgment free, That I may see Thee face to face, 7 O Jesus Christ, do not delay, But hasten our salvation! We often tremble on our way In fear and tribulation. Then hear us when we cry to Thee; Come, mighty Judge, and make us free From every evil. Amen! 553 8,7,8,7,8,8,7 GREAT God, what do I see and hear? The Judge of mankind doth appear The trumpet sounds; the graves restore 2 The dead in Christ shall first arise, At the last trumpet's sounding, Caught up to meet Him in the skies; With joy their Lord surrounding; No gloomy fears their souls dismay; His presence sheds eternal day On those prepared to meet Him. 3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears, Behold His wrath prevailing, For they shall rise, and find their tears And sighs are unavailing; The day of grace is past and gone; Trembling they stand before the throne, All unprepared to meet Him. 4 O Christ, who diedst and yet dost live, My pardon seal, my sins forgive, Beneath Thy cross I view the day 554 AND will the Judge descend? And must the dead arise 2 And from His righteous lips S. M. Shall this dread sentence sound; 3 "Depart from me accursed, 4 How will my heart endure The terrors of that day, When earth and heaven before His face Astonished shrink away? |